While food fortification reduces micronutrient inadequacies, additional interventions are necessary to ensure balanced nutrition and prevent excess intake.
Geneva — Large-scale food fortification—adding essential vitamins and minerals to staple foods like flour, rice, oil, and salt—currently prevents approximately 7 billion nutrient gaps* worldwide each ...
India, March 27 -- Large-scale food fortification-by enriching staple foods like flour, rice, oil, and salt with essential vitamins and minerals-helps prevent around 7 billion nutrient deficiencies ...
An Australian study suggests that mandatory folic acid fortification may have unintended consequences, linking excess folate to rising gestational diabetes and calling for urgent policy reassessment.
At the Academia-Micronutrient Deficiency Control (MNDC) Committee Roundtable on "Advancing Sustainable Food Fortification in Nigeria: Bridging Research, Innovation and Local Premix Production for ...
Fortifying staple foods with essential vitamins and minerals is a cheap and effective way to ensure that people have access to nutrients that may be lacking in their normal diets. These efforts have ...